HERALD AND NEWS,, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
PACE TEN
Cleveland.
St. Louis
Fear Donald
Yank Hurler Tops Indians
For Third Straight Time;
Buei Regain Second Spot
" : By JACK HAND
Associated Press Sports Writer
It Joe McCarthy ever gets
those New York Yankees up for
a fourth straight American
league pennant, Swampy Don
ald's black magic over Cleveland
and St. Louis will come in for a
lion's share of the credit.
-Thn-lean rishthanded screw-
ball artist from Louisiana's
swamp lands is just another
Eiteher against most of the clubs
ut he has beaten the Indians
12 of 13 starts since hitting the
big show and drubbed the
Brownies 11 of 14 tries. ,
With the help of homers by
Snuffy Stirnweiss and Oscar
Grimes, Donald topped Cleve
land for the third straight time
by a 6-3 score.
Six war fund games yesterday.
including the Cleveland night
fray and tuts m (JMcago, &t.
Louis, New York, Brooklyn and
Philadelphia, upped the major
league war contribution for
1944 to 5445,093.71.
. Boston and Detroit were halt
ed by rain in the eighth for a 1-1
tie-between Hal Newhouser and
Pinky Woods and Chicago staged
a two-run spurt in the last of the
ninth to top Washington, 4-3.
Pittsburgh took over second
place in the national's most ex
citing race by trimming the Gi
ants 6-5.
Brooklyn took over sole occu
pancy of the cellar by losing to
Chicago's Bill Fleming 4-1, as
Boston beat Bucky Walters 9-2
in the first game. Cincinnati
grabbed the nightcap from the
Braves, 8-5, for Harry Gumbert's
eighth triumph.
Danny Litwhiler was the hero
of St. Louis' 8-6 nod over the
Phils by clouting a three-run
homer in the eighth and scoring
the winning run in the tenth.
Steps Taken to
Halt Shibe Park
Baseball Gambling .
' PHILADELPHIA, July 27 UP)
A full report of the steps being
taken to halt gambling at Shibe
Park, has been filed with Base
ball .Commissioner Kenesaw M.
Landis by Herb Pennock, gener
al manager of the Philadelphia
Phillies, said last night.
''-'A- similar report is believed
to have been asked of Connie
Mack, now in St. Louis, after the
arrest of five men for making
bets in a recent Philadelphia
Boston National lejgue game. .
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Sports
Briefs
Br
Hugh
Fullorton, Jr.
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By FRITZ HOWELL :
(Pinch-hitting-for
Hugh Fullerton. Jr.)
NEW YORK, July 27 (if)
The armed services are taking
pretty 'good care of the ' four
freedoms. Mr. Fullerton, for
whom we re subbing, is enjoy
ing a fifth (vacationing at Free
dom, N. H.), and today as the
hazy, lazy dog-days approach,
we're declaring a sixth freedom
the right to construct a col
umn by clipping amps from
our colleagues.
Maybe they 11 duo us tne
thief of "bad-gag" for stealing
their stuff, but we're too tired
to worry., were are tne guest
stars, and their star jests:
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TOPS AND BOTTOMS
John E. Wray, St. Louis Post-
Dispatchr Our Browns are 'sev
enth in; team hitting, sixth -in
team fielding, and below par in
other departments of -play ...
In fact the only thing they're
first in, is the American loop.
Lynn -C. Doyle, Philadelphia
Bulletin: Twenty-five pounds of
scrap paper was-the admission
fee to Brooklyn's ball park the
other day . . . A small order
for flatbush fans with the fore
sight to- save clippings of the
critical analyses of the Dodger
losing streak and the Rickey
system jf or - rebuilding a ball
club. -
BASEBALL QUIZ
No. 1 What nlayer-won; the
batting championship in both
majors? -
No. 2 What player pitcneo
a no-hit ;game. in both majors?
(Answers at end, after our
guests leave).
FULLY EQUIPPED -
George Herrick,- San Diego
Tribune - Sun: George Zaharias
is all set for his opening pro
football game with the Los An
geles Mustangs here for . Sep
tember 3, except . , , tie has no
team, no: coach, no. name- for
the club,- and no place to play."
Bill Harvey, -paterson, jn. j..
Morning Call: Ray- -Starr --.has
pitched professionally -:f o r 17
different clubs in bis'. 19 years
of baseball.-TJie Pirate mounds-
man boasts . he gets at least two
hits annually -One in the
spring before, the pitchers -get
warmed up, ana one in tne tail
after they cool off.. He- thinks
a great liitter- is-a guy who can
hit a- bird . .shot with a buggy
whip. "
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ANSWERS TO QUIZ '
No. 1 Ed Delehanty, .408 in
1899 in National,-'370 an -isoz
in American. -
No. 2 Cy Young, Boston vs.
Philadelphia (American, . iau;
and Cleveland vs. Cincinnati
(National) -1897.
Insure your car with :- Hans
Norland. -New phone .number
6060. 118 North 7th St.
Ducks Two
Timed by
Rainiers
. Seattle Snaps Lose Streak
With Double Win Over
Bevos; Solont Trim Padres
Bv The Aisociittd Press
The Seattle Rainiers snapped
their five-game losing streak
last night with a 4 to 3 victory
over the Portland Beavers in a
12-inning contest that had been
scheduled as the seven-inning
opener of a doubleheader.
Then the Rainiers went on to
shut out the Beavers, S to 0,
in the n i g h t c a D and gam a
fourth place tie in the stand
ings with the Hollywood stars.
. Never more than one run was
scored by either team in an in
ning, in the drawn-out first
game ana Seattle came irom
behind to tie the score in the
third; seventh and ninth innings
before they finally scored the
winning run on a pair of sin
gles in the twelfth.
' Marino Pieretti cost Portland
the game in the ninth inning
when he walked in the tying
run giving Seattle a new lease
on life. . .
In the second game, cut to
eicht , innings because of the
league's midnight curfew regu
lation, Carl nscner snaciuea
thn Beavers with four hits while
his teammates were collecting
nine for three runs in the fourtn
and two more in the seventh.
In another marathon game
the Sacramento Solons, who
only got out of the cellar last
Sundav. drove the San Diego
Padres' deeper in by taking a
16-innine affair 3 to a. me
score had been tied from the
eighth on.
.Los "Angeles widened its mar
gin over the second-place Seals
by defeating the San Francisco
team 5 to l, wniie noiiywooa
trimmed third-place Oakland 9
to .2 "with Frank Kelleher get-
tine a' homer, a double, a single
and two bases on balls In his
five trips to the plate.
Wingers Advance
In Oregon Semi-.
Pro Tournament
-. PORTLAND, July 27 (if)
The Marine Wingers from Cor
vallis air base defeated Ander
son's Market, Vancouver, Wash.,
9-5, in the eighth inning of a
scheduled seven-inning game
last night.
The marines pushed over four
runs on two hits and two errors
in the extra inning to climb to
the second round of the annual
Oregon semi-pro baseball tour
ney.
. When In Medford
Stay at
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'' Joe and Ann Earloy
-Proprietors
DANCE
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Music by
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for Reservations
Unlimited Night Baseball
Flashes Caution Signal
NEW YORK,' July 27 (P) Un
limited night -baseball, legalized
at the Pittsburgh meetings twp
weeks ago, appeared todny to
have flashed a caution sign in-
Golfers tc
Shoot at Bud
Ward Records
SPOKANE, July 27 (if)
When the National Professional
Golfers association players line
out for their annual $20,000
tournament August 14-20 over
the Manito course here they
will be shooting at course rec
ords set by Lt. Bud Ward, dura
t i o n national amateur cham
pion. Ward, now with the air
forces in New Guinea, likewise
is secretary of the Athletic
Round Table, sponsors of the
tournament.
Ward's records include a
9-under-par; 63, and a 6-undcr-par
30 for the back nine, both
non-competitive.
Two years ago in the western
amateur, Ward set the course
competitive record at 68, four
under par. His 141 for 36 holes,
set in the qualifying rounds
that year, is the record for that
distance.
COACH CHOSEN
Portland; July 27 wi
Oliver E. Raikko, former Oregon
State college and Monmouth bas
ketball star, has been appointed
head athletic coach at Parkrose
school here. He coached at Bend
in 1941.
stiid of a' green light to big
luuguc club owners.
Although the SI. Louis Browns
ami; i-iuniums, ursiii-'niiw
boxWfk-si lure, pushed tho plan
mid adopted schedules culling for
almost continuous owl bull ac
tion ut .Sportsman's park, only
;w games nave ucen ii'st-iicmin-u
from dny to night in both
leagues.
The Now York Giants, Brook
lyn. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh,
ull equipped for after dark activ
ity, nave nociacci to siuim piu on
their original night schedules, us
luivo tho Cleveland Indians in
the American.
President Bill Benswanger of
the Pirates summed up the gen
eral uttilucle of lho.se contented
Willi a 14-giuuc quota wm'ii in
said, "I see no reason for a
change in, our schedule, allliough
I have an open mind cm the mut
ter as it concerns other clubs in
this topsy-turvy war year."
Base Stealer
Wins Feature
75-Yard Dash
CHICAGO," July 27 (tV)
George Case, the American
league's champion base stealer,
is speedy on -a straight course,
too. .
The flee BWashlngton out
fielder won a-' 75-yard dash at
Comiskey park lost night in the
feature of a series of field events
preceding tho (White Sox-Senators
war fund game. Ho was
timed in :07.8, and bent Chi
cago's Thurmah Tucker by a
yard. Johnny Sullivan of Wash
ington was third.
Washington ,also won first
place in other events.
Two Sons of
Idaho Mentor
Fall in Battle
MOSCOW, Idn July 27
University of Idaho Track Coach
Mike Hyun said today ho had
learned that two of his fivo
fighting Hyim family" sons
Captains Paul and Bernard
Ijv;, fell - under Japuncso
guns within a few days of each
other during tho taking of bul-
'" The war department had re
ported last wcok that. Capt.'
Piml Hyan was killed on Juno
17 Now It has Informed tho
widely-known track coach that
Co pi. Bernard Ryan was seri
ously wounded June 22.i
The i two men had been to
gether In the sumo reglmonl
through 34 months in tho South
rucific.
SHAD SEEN IN ROGUE
GRANTS PASS, July 27 W
A school of shad hus been sight
ed far up Rogue river, at tho base
of Rulney fulls, Joo Wharton,
local sportsman, sold today. This
Is the first time this species of
fish has mounted so far up the
river, Wharton sold.
SEALS SIGN RIPPLE
SAN FRANCISCO. July 27 (IP)
The Sun Frunclsco Sculs of the
Pacific Coast Baseball league
hove signed Jimmy Ripple, 34,
former major lcaguo star out
fielder, as a free agent, officials
of the club announced todny.
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